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I started to play around a bit to integrate the Smarty template engine into the Zend Framework. My ambition was to minimize the required code in the controller actions but stay close to the given Zend_View API. I also wanted to integrate the Smarty caching feature. Here is the code I came up with.

Here is a follow-up to the first part of the little tutorial Integrating Smarty with the Zend Framework. I want to address some of the issues in the comments of the first part and add some further information on how to setup your application to use the Travello_View_Smarty class. Along the way you learn how to integrate classes of the eZ Components.

A couple of weeks ago, Google jumped into the online calendar space by launching Google Calendar (um, beta). The application is chock-full of Ajaxy goodness and plenty of features, but I'm here to talk about what you can do with your calendar data behind the scenes. Using some handy tools from the Swiss Army Knife that is the Zend Framework, I'll show you how to pull data from your Google Calendar into your site. Just for kicks, I'll also throw in a caching layer to keep things fast and reduce the network traffic between your server and Google.

It is very easy to integrate other tools and components into the Zend Framework. I have already shown, how to integrate Smarty as a template engine and the ez Components to expand the selection of useful components to build your own framework based on the Zend Framework.
Since the Zend Framework is currently (Preview Version 0.1.3) lacking an ORM-Layer (Object Relational Mapping), I want to show you how to integrate Propel. Propel allows you to access your database using a set of objects, providing a simple API for storing and querying data. So Propel can easily take over the model part in a MVC system. For detailled information on Propel, its dependencies on Phing and Creole and how to install it please refer to the Propel website and the User guide.

This article contains a few examples on how to create and use data layer classes that was created by extending the Zend_Db_Table class from Zend Framework.

Issued Zend Framework 0.1.4 preview release comes with new interesting caching classes. I tested them at this weekend and IÂ’m glad to say that they can speed up your application dramatically. Zend_Cache namespace contains classes that aid in caching page outputs and function results; and, of course, the caching core API allows storing virtually any information you want. What is also brilliant, Zend_Cache allows developers to manage caching records by associating them with tags, which makes possible group operations with the cached items.

One of the features that sets the Zend Framework apart from the others is the inclusion of a decent search module. Zend_Search_Lucene is a php port of the Apache Lucene project, a full-text search engine framework. Zend_Search_Lucene promises a simple way to add search functionality to an application without requiring additional php extensions or even a database.

Great tutorial made by Chris Shiflett for A/R/T. Main topics are: getting started with Zend Framework, Zend Controller, Zend View, Zend_InputFilter, Zend_DB, and not only, but mostly exposing Model View Controller architecture. You can learn here even how easy is to make a basic CMS using Zend Framework.

Excelent review of Zend Controller classes.